Quotes on Fear

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.

If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously offensive, it simply puts an argument, and if your views are strong enough, as I believe they are, you will be able to defend your views. You will not say, "Oh, it's offensive, it's offensive." You will say "No, you are wrong here and you are wrong here," and that's what you should do.

The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply unpleasant idea. If God wanted to forgive us our sins, why didn't he just forgive them? Why did he have to have his son tortured?

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

True nobility is exempt from fear.